Mendez
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Méndez or Mendes (in the Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 form) is a common surname
Surname
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, originally a patronymic
Patronymic
A patronym, or patronymic, is a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor. A component of a name based on the name of one's mother or a female ancestor is a matronymic. Each is a means of conveying lineage.In many areas patronyms...

, meaning Son of Mendo or Son of Mem.
It may refer to:

General

  • Abraham Pereira Mendes
    Abraham Pereira Mendes
    Abraham Pereira Mendes was an English rabbi and educator.He was the first master of the Beth Limud School of Kingston, but resigned in order to prepare in London, England for the vocation of preacher and rabbi. He studied under Dr. Meldola, the dayyan, and the Rev. D. A...

     (1825–1893), English rabbi and educator
  • Alexis Méndez
    Alexis Méndez
    Alexis Omar Méndez is a retired male professional track and road racing cyclist from Venezuela. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics: 1988 and 2000.-Career:19901991199319941998...

     (born 1969), Venezuelan track and road cyclist
  • Ana G. Méndez
    Ana G. Méndez
    Ana G. Méndez was an educator who founded the Ana G. Mendez University System in Puerto Rico.-Early years:...

     (1908–1997), Puerto Rican educator
  • Ángel Rivero Méndez
    Ángel Rivero Méndez
    Ángel Rivero Méndez was a Puerto Rican soldier, writer, journalist and a businessman who is credited with inventing the "Kola Champagne" soft drink...

     (1856–1930), Puerto Rican soldier, writer, journalist and businessman
  • António Rosa Mendes
    António Rosa Mendes
    António Rosa Mendes was born in Vila Nova de Cacela, Portugal. He is a professor of history at the Algarve University .In the year of 2005 he was the president of the Portuguese Cultural Capital in Faro....

     (born 1954), Portuguese academic
  • Antonio Tobias Mendez
    Antonio Tobias Mendez
    Antonio Tobias Mendez is an American sculptor.-Works:Mendez has produced over twenty public monuments: his sculptures include Thurgood Marshall, Don Shula, Mohandas Gandhi, Major Taylor, and part of the United States Navy Memorial.as well as being nominated as one of the three finalists to...

     (born 1963), American sculptor
  • Aparicio Méndez
    Aparicio Méndez
    Aparicio Méndez Manfredini , was a Uruguayan political figure. He was a de facto President of Uruguay from 1976–1981. As a non-democratically elected authority of the Civic-military dictatorship .-Background:...

     (1904–1988), Uruguayan politician
  • Aristides de Sousa Mendes
    Aristides de Sousa Mendes
    Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches, GCC, OL was a Portuguese diplomat. He ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II...

     (1885–1954), Portuguese diplomat
  • Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
    Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
    Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez was the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit...

     (born 1942), Cuban cosmonaut
  • Aristides Sousa Mendes (1885–1954), Portuguese diplomat and Righteous Among The Nations
    Righteous Among the Nations
    Righteous among the Nations of the world's nations"), also translated as Righteous Gentiles is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis....

  • Benjamin Mendes da Costa
    Benjamin Mendes da Costa
    Benjamin Mendes da Costa was an English merchant and philanthropist. In July 1840 he emigrated to the newly settled colony of South Australia, becoming a successful merchant on Hindley Street and acquiring significant landholdings in the city centre...

     (1803–1868), English merchant and philanthropist
  • Bob Mendes
    Bob Mendes
    David Mendes pseudonym Bob Mendes is a Belgian accountant and writer of detective stories. He graduated in accountancy, fiscal duties and business administration and started his professional career as an accountant....

     (born 1928), Belgian accountant and writer of detective stories
  • Catulle Mendès
    Catulle Mendès
    Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters.Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, he was born in Bordeaux. He early established himself in Paris and promptly attained notoriety by the publication in the Revue fantaisiste of his Roman d'une nuit, for which he was condemned to a month's...

     (1841–1909), French poet
  • Cecilia Méndez
    Cecilia Méndez
    Cecilia Ines Méndez is an Argentine fashion model who has been in advertising campaigns for Marithe & François Girbaud, Charles David, and Bottega Veneta.-Career:...

     (1986- ), Argentine fashion model.
  • Chico Mendes
    Chico Mendes
    Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes , was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples...

     (1944–1988), Brazilian environmental activist
  • Conny Méndez
    Conny Méndez
    Juana María de la Concepción, commonly referred as Conny Méndez, was born on 11 April 1898 in Caracas, Venezuela, and died in Miami, 26 November 1979. She was a composer, singer, writer, caricaturist, actress and metaphysican....

     (1898–1979), Venezuelan composer, singer, writer, caricaturist and actress
  • Denny Méndez
    Denny Mendez
    Denny Andreina Méndez de la Rosa is a former beauty queen turned model and actress who represented Italy in the 1997 Miss Universe pageant.-Early life:...

     (born 1978), Dominican model and actress
  • Duarte Mendes
    Duarte Mendes
    José Henrique Duarte Mendes is a former Portuguese captain and singer. He participated in Festival da Canção in 1970, 1972 and 1973 but he did not win until 1975 when he performed "Madrugada" , about Colonial War and 1974's Carnation Revolution.He represented Portugal in Eurovision Song Contest...

     (born 1947), Portuguese captain and singer
  • Elvira Mendes
    Elvira Mendes
    Elvira Mendes, sometimes called Elvira or Geloria Menéndez of Portugal or Galicia, , was Queen of León ....

     (c. 996–1022), Queen of Léon
  • Emanuel Mendez da Costa
    Emanuel Mendez da Costa
    Emanuel Mendez da Costa was an English botanist, naturalist, philosopher, and collector of valuable notes and of manuscripts, and of anecdotes of the literati....

     (1717–1791), English naturalist and philosopher
  • Eva Mendes
    Eva Mendes
    Eva Mendes is an American actress.She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror and Urban Legends: Final Cut , she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood...

     (born 1974), American actress
  • Felix Mendez
    Felix Mendez
    Félix Méndez is the founder and president of eContenido a production company dedicated to provide exclusive content for television, film, Internet and mobile technologies for distribution worldwide...

    , United States film/television producer and director
  • Fernão Mendes Pinto
    Fernão Mendes Pinto
    Fernão Mendes Pinto was a Portuguese explorer and writer. His exploits are known through the posthumous publication of his memoir Pilgrimage in 1614, an autobiographical work whose truthfulness is nearly impossible to assess...

     (c. 1509–1583), Portuguese adventurer, explorer and writer
  • Francisco Mendes
    Francisco Mendes
    Francisco Mendes, nom de guerre Chico Té was a Guinea-Bissau politician. He was the country's first Prime Minister and held that position from September 24, 1973 until his assassination on July 7, 1978 under suspicious circumstances.In early 1960s PAIGC launched an armed struggle against...

     (1939–1978), Guinea-Bissau politician
  • Francisco Mendez
    Francisco Méndez
    Francisco Méndez was a Guatemalan poet and short-story writer born in Joyabaj, El Quiché. He published his first poem at the age of eighteen, and moved to the city of Quetzaltenango shortly after. A self-taught writer, he went on to publish numerous volumes of poetry, including the celebrated...

     (1937- ), Puertorican poet and trovador
  • Francisco Méndez
    Francisco Méndez
    Francisco Méndez was a Guatemalan poet and short-story writer born in Joyabaj, El Quiché. He published his first poem at the age of eighteen, and moved to the city of Quetzaltenango shortly after. A self-taught writer, he went on to publish numerous volumes of poetry, including the celebrated...

     (1907–1962), Guatemalan poet and short-story writer
  • Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio (1629–1687), Spanish politician and art collector
  • Henry Pereira Mendes
    Henry Pereira Mendes
    Henry Pereira Mendes was an American rabbi who was born in Birmingham, England and died in New York.-Family history and education:...

     (1852–1937), American rabbi
  • Ian Mendes
    Ian Mendes
    Ian Mendes is an Indo-Canadian sports broadcaster for Rogers Sportsnet East, a Canadian sports news channel covering Eastern Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces...

     (born 1976), Canadian sports broadcaster
  • Íñigo Méndez de Vigo
    Íñigo Méndez de Vigo
    Íñigo Méndez De Vigo y Montojo is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party since 1992, and Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party....

     (born 1956), Spanish politician
  • Jacob Mendes Da Costa
    Jacob Mendes Da Costa
    Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa was an American physician and surgeon....

     (born 1833–1900), American surgeon
  • João Mendes de Silva
    João Mendes de Silva
    The Blessed Amadeus of Portugal, O.F.M., , was a Portuguese nobleman who became first a monk, then left that life to become a friar of the Franciscan Order...

     (1420–1482) known as Amadeus of Portugal, Portuguese beatified Franciscan friar
  • José Fernando Ferreira Mendes
    José Fernando Ferreira Mendes
    José F.F. Mendes is a Portuguese physicist and professor of physics at University of Aveiro .Was Head of Physics Department from December 2004 to February 2010...

     (born 1965), Portuguese physicist
  • José Mendes Cabeçadas
    José Mendes Cabeçadas
    José Mendes Cabeçadas Júnior, OTE, ComA , commonly known as Mendes Cabeçadas , was a Portuguese Marine officer, free mason and republican, having a major role in the preparation of the revolutionary movements that created and ended the Portuguese First Republic: the 5 October revolution in 1910 and...

     (1883–1965), Portuguese military and politician
  • Juan E. Méndez (born 1944), Argentine lawyer and academic
  • Juan N. Méndez
    Juan N. Méndez
    Juan Nepomuceno Méndez was a Mexican general, a Liberal politician and confidante of Porfirio Díaz, and interim president of the Republic for a few months during the Porfiriato...

     (1820–1894), Mexican general and Liberal politician
  • Lester Mendez
    Lester Mendez
    Lester Mendez is an American record producer and songwriter. His production/writing credits include a multitude of successful hits including Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes" and "La Tortura", Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair", and Nelly Furtado's "Te Busqué".Mendez worked with Carlos Santana...

    , United States record producer and songwriter
  • Limberg Méndez
    Limberg Méndez
    Limberg Méndez Justiniano is a former Bolivian football striker who played in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano from 1997 to 2008....

     (born 1973), Bolivian football (soccer) player
  • Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr.
    Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr.
    Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. was a highly decorated United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division who in June 1944, as commander of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, parachuted behind enemy lines into Normandy and was awarded a Distinguished...

     (1915–2001), United States Army officer
  • Lucía Méndez
    Lucía Méndez
    Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer that has sold over 10 million records world wide.- Early success :...

     (born 1951), Mexican actress and singer
  • Luciano Mendes de Almeida
    Luciano Mendes de Almeida
    Luciano Pedro Mendes de Almeida, S.J. was a Brazilian Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1930....

     (1930–2006), Brazilian Jesuit priest and bishop
  • Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez
    Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez
    Dom Luis Fernando Castillo Méndez was patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church , an independent catholic church...

    , Brazilian Catholic priest and patriarch
  • Luís Marques Mendes
    Luís Marques Mendes
    Luís Manuel Gonçalves Marques Mendes is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, and a former Leader of the Social Democratic Party.-Career:...

     (born 1957), Portuguese politician
  • Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos
    Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos
    Fra' Luis Mendes de Vasconcellos was the 55th Grand Master of the Order of Malta, between 1622 and 1623.He was born in Évora, Portugal, c. 1542 and died on March 7, 1623 in Malta...

     (died 1623), Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • Manuel A. Garcia Mendez
    Manuel A. Garcia Mendez
    Manuel A. García Méndez was born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. He was a recognized businessman, lawyer, and politician.-Family:He came from a numerous family, in which several siblings were recognized politicians in Puerto Rico. Among them were Miguel A. García Méndez and Juan B...

    , Puerto Rican businessman, lawyer and politician
  • Manuel Mendes
    Manuel Mendes
    Manuel Mendes was a Portuguese composer and teacher of the Renaissance. While his music remains obscure, he was important as the teacher of several of the composers of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony, including Duarte Lobo and Manuel Cardoso.He was born in Lisbon, and studied music with...

     (c. 1547–1605), Portuguese composer
  • Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez
    Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez
    Marco Aurelio Robles Méndez was President of Panama from October 1, 1964 to September 30, 1968. He studied at the University of Panama and at the Sorbonne . Before his presidency, he served on diplomatic missions in France and United Kingdom and also as Minister of Justice....

     (1905–1990), Panamanian politician and President
  • Marco Méndez
    Marco Méndez
    Marco Méndez is a Mexican actor.Méndez began as a model and later studied acting in Televisa's CEA. He made his television debut as 'Oscar Méndez' in the telenovela, Las vías del amor...

     (born 1976), Mexican actor
  • Martin Mendez
    Martin Mendez
    Martín Méndez is the bass guitar player of progressive death metal band Opeth and second most constant member of the band, behind lead vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt....

     (born 1978), Uruguayan musician
  • Miguel Abadía Méndez
    Miguel Abadía Méndez
    Miguel Abadía Méndez was the 17th President of Colombia . A Conservative party politician, Abadía was the last president of the period known as the Conservative Hegemony, running unopposed and forming a one party Cabinet.- Political career :Abadía, as a young lawyer, was a professor and MP...

     (1867–1947), Colombian politician
  • Miguel A. García Méndez
    Miguel A. García Méndez
    Miguel Angel García Méndez was a recognized businessman, lawyer, statesman, and banker in Puerto Rico. He was a lifelong statehood supporter for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico...

     (1902–1998), Puerto Rican businessman, lawyer, statesman and banker
  • Murilo Mendes
    Murilo Mendes
    Murilo Mendes was an exponent of Modernist poetry in Brazil. He lived in Europe twice and died in Lisbon. His greatest connection in Europe though was to Rome...

     (1901–1975), Brazilian poet
  • Nicanor Costa Méndez
    Nicanor Costa Méndez
    Nicanor Costa Méndez was an Argentine diplomat.Costa Méndez was born into a privileged background in Buenos Aires, in 1922. He attended the University of Buenos Aires, graduating with a Law Degree in 1943...

    , Argentine politician
  • Olga A. Méndez
    Olga A. Méndez
    Olga A. Méndez was the first Puerto Rican woman elected to a state legislature in the United States mainland.-Early years:...

     (born 1926), Puerto Rican politician
  • Paulo Mendes da Rocha
    Paulo Mendes da Rocha
    Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a Brazilian architect, honored with the Mies van der Rohe Prize and the Pritzker Prize .Paulo attended the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie College of Architecture, graduating in 1954...

     (born 1928), Brazilian architect
  • Pierre Mendès-France
    Pierre Mendès-France
    Pierre Mendès France was a French politician. He descended from a Portuguese Jewish family that moved to France in the sixteenth century.-Third Republic and World War II:...

     (1907–1982), French politician
  • Rafael Alfonso Umaña Mendez
    Umaña
    Rafael Alfonso Umaña Mendez , known to most as Umaña, created art for seven decades in New York, France, Spain, Florida, and Virginia, mastering numerous media including textiles; sculpture in marble, silver, and iron; painting and drawings in oil, watercolor, pencil, silver- and goldpoint;...

     (1908–1994) Colobian artist
  • Rafael Méndez
    Rafael Méndez
    Rafael Méndez was a popular Mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter.Méndez was born in Jiquilpan, Michoacán, Mexico...

     (1906–1981), United States musician
  • Rafael de Nogales Méndez
    Rafael de Nogales Méndez
    Rafael Inchauspe Méndez, known as Rafael de Nogales Méndez was a Venezuelan soldier, adventurer and writer...

     (1879–1936) known as Rafael Inchauspe Méndez, Venezuelan military mercenary
  • Raimundo Teixeira Mendes
    Raimundo Teixeira Mendes
    Raimundo Teixeira Mendes was a Brazilian philosopher and mathematician. He is credited with creating the national motto, "Order and Progress", as well as the national flag on which it appears....

     (1855–1927), Brazilian philosopher and mathematician
  • Rebeca Mendez
    Rebeca Mendez
    Rebeca Méndez is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is professor at UCLA Design Media Arts Department in Los Angeles, California.- Biography :...

    , United States artist and designer
  • Rosie Méndez
    Rosie Mendez
    Rosie Mendez is an American Democratic Party politician in New York. She is a member of the New York City Council from Manhattan, representing the 2nd council district, which includes the Lower East Side, Alphabet City and the East Village...

    , United States politician
  • Ryan Mendez, United States musician
  • Sam Mendes
    Sam Mendes
    Samuel Alexander "Sam" Mendes, CBE is an English stage and film director. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning work on his debut film American Beauty and his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret , Oliver! , Company and Gypsy . He's currently working on the 23rd James Bond...

     (born 1965), British stage and film director
  • Santiago Méndez
    Santiago Méndez
    Santiago Méndez Ibarra was governor of Yucatán, Mexico 3 times from 1840 to 1857: 1840 - 1844; 1847 - 1848; 1855 - 1857, alternating that office with Miguel Barbachano mainly during his first and second terms....

     (1790–1870), Mexican politician
  • Sara Mendes da Costa
    Sara Mendes da Costa
    Sara Mendes da Costa, born c. 1966, from Brighton & Hove became the fourth permanent holder of the iconic role of the voice of the UK Speaking Clock, first established in 1936, at 08:00 BST on 2 April 2007....

     (born c. 1966), British voice actress
  • Sérgio Mendes
    Sergio Mendes
    Sérgio Santos Mendes is a Brazilian musician. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....

     (born 1941), Brazilian musician
  • Simon Mendes da Costa
    Simon Mendes da Costa
    Simon Mendes da Costa is a playwright.He trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School between 1989 and 1991. His first play, Table for One, opened at the Hen and Chickens Theatre on 6 November 2001...

    , British playwright
  • Sylvia Mendez
    Sylvia Mendez
    Sylvia Mendez is an American civil rights activist of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage.At age eight, she played an instrumental role in the Mendez v. Westminster case, the landmark desegregation case of 1946. The case successfully ended de jure segregation in California...

     (born 1936), American civil rights activist
  • Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez
    Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez
    Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez was the Governor of the state of Veracruz in Mexico for five terms from 1892 to 1911.- Early years :...

     (1848–1936), Mexican politician
  • Tomás Méndez
    Tomás Méndez
    Tomás Méndez was a Mexican composer and singer of Mexican music and ranchera music. He was born in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. He obtained his first success in 1954 with the Mexican music song "Gorrioncillo pecho amarillo" and continued in the same year with the huapangos like "Cucurrucucú...

    , Mexican composer and singer
  • Tony Mendez
    Tony Mendez
    Tony Mendez is a former CIA technical operations officer. His job was to support clandestine and covert CIA operations...

     (born 1945), Dancer, Cue Card Boy, Actor, Host
  • Tony Mendez
    Tony Mendez
    Tony Mendez is a former CIA technical operations officer. His job was to support clandestine and covert CIA operations...

    , United States CIA officer

Sports

  • Carlos Mendes
    Carlos Mendes
    Carlos Mendes is an American soccer player who most recently played for New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.-College:...

     (born 1980), United States footballer
  • Carlos Méndez
    Carlos Méndez
    Carlos Alberto Méndez Castillo is a former Major League Baseball first baseman/designated hitter and right-handed batter who played for the Baltimore Orioles in ....

     (born 1974), United States baseball player
  • Cleiton Mendes Dos Santos
    Cleiton Mendes dos Santos
    Cleiton Mendes dos Santos is a Brazilian football midfielder who is now playing in Brazilian Campeonato Pernambucano Série A1 team Santa Cruz FC. He joined Hong Kong First Division League team South China for a short term loan in 2007 as a stengthening of the squad for Hong Kong FA Cup 2006-07...

     (born 1978), Brazilian footballer
  • Daniel Mendes
    Daniel Mendes
    Daniel Freire Mendes, is a Brazilian football player who plays for Kalmar FF in the highest Swedish league Allsvenskan.- Career :He has previously played for AIK and Degerfors IF....

    , Brazilian footballer
  • David Mendes da Silva
    David Mendes da Silva
    David Mendes da Silva Gonçalves is a Dutch footballer of Cape Verdean heritage who plays for Red Bull Salzburg as a midfielder....

     (born 1982), Dutch footballer
  • Donaldo Méndez
    Donaldo Méndez
    Donaldo Alfonso Méndez is a former professional baseball player. A shortstop, he played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres in 2001 and 2003....

     (born 1978), United States baseball player
  • Edison Méndez
    Edison Méndez
    Édison Vicente Méndez Méndez is an Ecuadorian football midfielder who plays for Emelec and the Ecuadorian national team.-Playing style:...

     (born 1979), Ecuadorian footballer
  • Federico Méndez
    Federico Mendez
    Federico Mendez , also known as Freddie Mendez is an Argentine rugby union footballer.Méndez played professional rugby in South Africa, England and France...

     (born 1972), Argentine rugby union player
  • Gabriel Mendez
    Gabriel Mendez
    Gabriel Mendez is a former Australian football player.An attacking midfielder, the much-travelled Mendez is a former player of Admira Wacker and Notts County in Europe and for Malaysian side Kedah FA. He is also a former Australia national football team player from 1994-2000.- External links :*...

     (born 1973), Australian footballer
  • Gustavo Méndez (born 1971), Uruguayan footballer
  • Gustavo Méndez (referee)
    Gustavo Méndez (referee)
    Gustavo Méndez is a football referee from Uruguay, best known for supervising two matches at the Copa América 2004 in Peru...

     (born 1967), Uruguayan football referee
  • Héctor Méndez
    Hector Mendez
    Héctor Eugene Méndez was an Argentine welterweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s. He won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics, losing against Jean DeLarge in the final bout....

     (1897–?), Argentine boxer
  • José Méndez
    José Méndez
    José de la Caridad Méndez was a Cuban right-handed pitcher and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues. Born in Cárdenas, Matanzas, he died at age 41 in Havana. Known in Cuba as El Diamante Negro , he became a legend in his homeland. He was one of the first group of players elected to the Cuban...

     (1887–1928), United States baseball player and manager
  • Juan Mendez (born 1981), United States basketball player
  • Judith Méndez
    Judith Méndez
    Judith Méndez Volquez is a female heptathlete from the Dominican Republic.-Achievements:-References:*...

     (born 1981), Dominican Republicis heptathlete
  • Junior Mendes
    Junior Mendes
    Albert Junior Hillyard Andrew Mendes , more commonly known as Junior Mendes, is a footballer who plays as a striker.-Club career:Born in Balham, London, In the past he has played for Chelsea, St...

     (born 1976), English footballer
  • Mario Méndez (born 1979), Mexican footballer
  • Norberto Doroteo Méndez
    Norberto Doroteo Méndez
    Norberto Doroteo Méndez was a former Argentine football striker. He was born on January 5, 1923, in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He played 31 games for the Argentina national football team and won 3 Copa América titles and 3 Primera Division Argentina titles in his career...

     (1923–1998), Argentine footballer
  • Pedro Mendes
    Pedro Mendes
    Pedro Miguel da Silva Mendes is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Vitória Guimarães of the Portuguese first division .Starting his career with home town club Vitória de Guimarães, Mendes won a UEFA Champions League medal with FC Porto in 2004...

     (born 1979), Portuguese footballer
  • Rodrigo Mendes (born 1975), Brazilian footballer
  • Rómulo Méndez
    Rómulo Méndez
    Rómulo Méndez Molina is a retired Guatemalan football referee. He was the first Guatemalan referee ever to participate in a World Cup finals, refereeing one match in the 1982 World Cup. He also appeared in one match of the 1986 World Cup.- External links :*...

     (born 1938), Guatemalan football referee
  • Ronald Méndez
    Ronald Mendez
    Ronald Méndez is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In the final Méndez' team defeated Cuba 3-0 .-References:*...

     (born 1982), Venezuelan volleyball player
  • Ryan Mendez
    Ryan Mendez (basketball)
    Ryan Mendez played basketball at Stanford University from 1996-2001. He set a Pac-10 record for most consecutive free throws made during the 2000-01 season. Luke Ridnour of Oregon broke that record in 2003 with 62. Ryan Mendez is the founder of Streetball.com.Other places in the Stanford and...

    , United States basketball player
  • Sandro Mendes
    Sandro Mendes
    Sandro Miguel Laranjeira Mendes , simply Sandro, is a Cape Verdean footballer who plays for Associação Naval 1º de Maio in the Portuguese second division....

     (born 1977), Portuguese footballer
  • Sebastián Méndez
    Sebastián Méndez
    Sebastián Ariel Méndez Pardiñas is an Argentine football manager and former player. He currently manages Banfield.As a player, Méndez was a central defender...

     (born 1977), Argentime footballer
  • Tiago Mendes
    Tiago Mendes
    Tiago Cardoso Mendes , simply Tiago, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Atlético Madrid.A versatile midfielder, adept as both a central or defensive unit and with good overall skills, he played professionally in four of Europe's major leagues: England, France, Italy and Spain.A...

     (born 1981), Portuguese footballer
  • Tony Mendes
    Tony Mendes
    Tony Mendes is an American professional bull rider on the PBR's Built Ford Tough Series. He was born in Reno, Nevada; having previously lived in Reno and then in Jensen, Utah, Mendes resides currently in Pueblo, Colorado.-Career:...

     (born 1977), American bull rider

Fiction

  • Armando and Diego Mendez, Brothers, and antagonists in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
    Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is a 2006 sandbox-style action video game developed by Rockstar Leeds in association with Rockstar North. It was published by Rockstar Games for the PlayStation Portable in late 2006 and later for the PlayStation 2 in March 2007. The game is the eighth...


Places

  • Cândido Mendes
    Cândido Mendes
    Cândido Mendes is a Brazilian city and municipality in the state of Maranhão. Its population in 2004 was 19,405....

    , city in Maranhão, Brazil
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